{"id":197237,"date":"2025-12-23T00:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:39:04","slug":"avatar-fire-and-ash-varang-actor-oona-chaplin-is-charlie-chaplins-granddaughter-and-considered-changing-her-name-its-tricky-to-feel-undeserving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197237\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019 Varang Actor Oona Chaplin Is Charlie Chaplin\u2019s Granddaughter and Considered Changing Her Name: \u2018It\u2019s Tricky to Feel Undeserving\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oona Chaplin<\/a> is the actor behind \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>\u201d villain Varang. She\u2019s also the granddaughter of film icon Charlie Chaplin<\/a>. Oona<\/a>, whose credits also include \u201cGame of Thrones<\/a>,\u201d recently told The Times of London that she considered changing her name after graduating from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art<\/a> and starting her pursuit of a full-time acting career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a journey to feel deserving, because I know that doors have opened for me that potentially wouldn\u2019t have opened if I wasn\u2019t associated with this brilliant man,\u201d Oona Chaplin said. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely tricky to feel undeserving of the place you\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n

She decided against changing her name, however, because her mindset shifted \u201cfrom guilt to gratitude by working really hard and knowing that whatever I do is never going to compare to what my grandfather did. If all my purpose in this realm is for people to say,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oona Chaplin is the actor behind \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d villain Varang. She\u2019s also the granddaughter of film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[34398,34399,16055,9719,156,34397,34395,4223,409,111,139,16052,69,34396,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-197237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-atores","9":"tag-atrizes-e-diretores","10":"tag-celebridades","11":"tag-cinema","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-estrelas","14":"tag-filmes","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-noticias","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-televisao","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}